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9780718500269: Structure and Contingency: Evolutionary Processes in Life and Human History
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ISBN 10: 0718500261 ISBN 13: 9780718500269
Editorial: Leicester University Press, 1999

Sinopsis

The theme of this book is the appropriate methodology for the study of the history of life on earth. In particular, it focuses on the interplay between form and structure: the things that we might predict and model and the things that we cannot predict the arbitrary and the contingent which may be as important, or even more important, than the way in which life on earth has evolved. The contributors are drawn from palaeontology, archaeology, anthropology and human evolution; the time scales covered are from the development of life on earth, through human evolution to later prehistory and historic archaeology. Underpinning the theme of the book is the work of Stephen Jay Gould, who has developed a distinctive philosophy of history concerning the nature of longterm and shortterm evolutionary processes, particularly stressing the interplay between structure and contingency.

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John Bintliff is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

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Editorial
Leicester University Press
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0718500261
ISBN 13 
9780718500269
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
176
Editor
Bintliff John
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
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